Career Overview and Infrastructure Expertise

Chris has a solid background in engineering, having worked at two major companies, LinkedIn and WePay, over a span of 15 years. His expertise lies in infrastructure, where he played key roles in the Hadoop and Kafka ecosystems while at LinkedIn. Notably, Chris was involved in developing Apache SAMSA, a stream processing system, and later managed the data infrastructure team at WePay, contributing to Airflow integration and payments infrastructure. This extensive experience in building and managing complex systems laid the foundation for his current endeavors, including his writing and investment activities.